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Am 29.06.2012 16:49 schrieb Stefan Monnier:
You do know that all Thinkpad T60/X60 can replace the BIOS with coreboot?
No, I didn't, that would be wonderful news. I see a few mentions of T60 support when googling for it, but nothing sufficiently clear to make me confident I would know how to flash it and I'd be able to assess whether I'm flashing the right firmware.
Admittedly the information about coreboot on a T60/X60 is spread around quite a bit: http://www.coreboot.org/Thinkpad_X60s has some status info http://www.coreboot.org/pipermail/coreboot/2012-January/067959.html has some info on how to replace the BIOS on that machine with coreboot, but read the WHOLE thread because the linked mail had a few typos in the description.
Any pointers to information about it would be very welcome (e.g. which T60 are "supported" or at least expected to work?
AFAIK all T60/X60 variants work with coreboot. Sven Schnelle knows more, he is the one who ported coreboot to those thinkpads.
does flashrom work or do I need some hardware-mod?
You need a small flashrom patch and the bucts utility, no hardware mod needed.
how easily can I revert to the proprietary firmware if something (e.g. suspend) doesn't work quite right?)
You can simply reflash the original BIOS to the flash chip if you're running coreboot.
Regards, Carl-Daniel
On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 3:39 PM, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006@gmx.net wrote:
[adding coreboot mailing list to CC]
Am 29.06.2012 16:49 schrieb Stefan Monnier: Admittedly the information about coreboot on a T60/X60 is spread around quite a bit: http://www.coreboot.org/Thinkpad_X60s has some status info http://www.coreboot.org/pipermail/coreboot/2012-January/067959.html has some info on how to replace the BIOS on that machine with coreboot, but read the WHOLE thread because the linked mail had a few typos in the description.
And here (my thread regarding flashing X60s): http://www.mail-archive.com/flashrom@flashrom.org/msg08064.html
Carl-Daniel Hailfinger c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006@gmx.net writes:
[adding coreboot mailing list to CC]
Am 29.06.2012 16:49 schrieb Stefan Monnier:
You do know that all Thinkpad T60/X60 can replace the BIOS with coreboot?
No, I didn't, that would be wonderful news. I see a few mentions of T60 support when googling for it, but nothing sufficiently clear to make me confident I would know how to flash it and I'd be able to assess whether I'm flashing the right firmware.
Admittedly the information about coreboot on a T60/X60 is spread around quite a bit: http://www.coreboot.org/Thinkpad_X60s has some status info http://www.coreboot.org/pipermail/coreboot/2012-January/067959.html has some info on how to replace the BIOS on that machine with coreboot, but read the WHOLE thread because the linked mail had a few typos in the description.
Any pointers to information about it would be very welcome (e.g. which T60 are "supported" or at least expected to work?
AFAIK all T60/X60 variants work with coreboot. Sven Schnelle knows more, he is the one who ported coreboot to those thinkpads.
I have the following thinkpad models running on coreboot:
Thinkpad X60s (Model 1702-24U) Thinkpad X60 (actually only the Mainboard without case/display for debugging: Model 1703) Thinkpad T60p (Model 2007-CTO)
There are also a few other users with a X60/T60, but i don't know exact details about the model type they use. I think i've also seen Model 1708/1709 X60's running coreboot.
Sven.
2012/7/2 Sven Schnelle svens@stackframe.org:
Carl-Daniel Hailfinger c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006@gmx.net writes:
[adding coreboot mailing list to CC]
Am 29.06.2012 16:49 schrieb Stefan Monnier:
You do know that all Thinkpad T60/X60 can replace the BIOS with coreboot?
No, I didn't, that would be wonderful news. I see a few mentions of T60 support when googling for it, but nothing sufficiently clear to make me confident I would know how to flash it and I'd be able to assess whether I'm flashing the right firmware.
Admittedly the information about coreboot on a T60/X60 is spread around quite a bit: http://www.coreboot.org/Thinkpad_X60s has some status info http://www.coreboot.org/pipermail/coreboot/2012-January/067959.html has some info on how to replace the BIOS on that machine with coreboot, but read the WHOLE thread because the linked mail had a few typos in the description.
Any pointers to information about it would be very welcome (e.g. which T60 are "supported" or at least expected to work?
AFAIK all T60/X60 variants work with coreboot. Sven Schnelle knows more, he is the one who ported coreboot to those thinkpads.
I have the following thinkpad models running on coreboot:
Thinkpad X60s (Model 1702-24U) Thinkpad X60 (actually only the Mainboard without case/display for debugging: Model 1703) Thinkpad T60p (Model 2007-CTO)
There are also a few other users with a X60/T60, but i don't know exact details about the model type they use. I think i've also seen Model 1708/1709 X60's running coreboot.
I have a X60 (1707-CTO / 1707YAU) that won't boot Linux (it segfaults while booting either a 32- or 64-bit kernel/distribution) at all, with ACPI enabled.
Starting the Windows 7 installer or booting FreeBSD/FreeBSD's installer doesn't cause any trouble. Booting Linux with acpi=off would be a workaround; unfortunately I don't have an Ultrabase X6 so resolving the problem is somewhat difficult at the moment.
Sven.
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Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:
Am 29.06.2012 16:49 schrieb Stefan Monnier:
You do know that all Thinkpad T60/X60 can replace the BIOS with coreboot?
No, I didn't, that would be wonderful news.
If you happen to be in Berlin we can organize some get-together to liberate some thinkpads. I would bring what's neccessary to recover from failed flashes.
how easily can I revert to the proprietary firmware if something (e.g. suspend) doesn't work quite right?)
You can simply reflash the original BIOS to the flash chip if you're running coreboot.
Yes, it is much easier than going the other way.
Please note that you need to take a backup of *your own* factory BIOS image if you want to run unmodified factory BIOS again, because it is locked to your planar (mainboard). If you lose your factory BIOS image you have to buy a new planar or work on modifying the factory BIOS to remove the planar check.
coreboot runs fine also on 1709 X60. Suspend is significantly more reliable with coreboot than with factory BIOS for me.
In case of over heat the CPU just shuts down. No Intel CPUs can self destruct as far as I know. This was a big issue in the 90s when some early AMD CPUs self destructed. Intel never had the problem.
//Peter
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